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[bubosquared]

NaNoWriMo: Day 4
Word Count: 496

I will not panic, I will not panic, I will not panic ...

I will, however, kick the shit out of netscape if it doesn't stop crashing. Argh! And yes, Outlook, if you don't stop it with the infinite slowness of doom, I shall smite you, too!

I need coffee.

Trivia factlet of the day: The Lemon from U2's Zoo TV tour is stored in pieces in three different warehouses in Belgium.

"The all-purpose short sleeve white t-shirt (Represented here by a map of Belgium)" The NaNo people are on the special crack, yo.

I need a title for my NaNovel. Aaarrrrrgh.

Discovered this weekend that That Blasted Rod Stewart Song still makes me sniffly. I hate my brain.

Also, people on the NaNo page who are going "Argh! I only have x-thousand words"? Bite. Me.

Dear Self

What you should be thinking about:

• Your NaNovel

What you shouldn't be thinking about:

• Marcus/Lee war!drabbles;
• Marcus/Lee anything;
• Marcus/Draco BLC smut;
• Marcus/Draco cuteness;
• young!Marcus&baby!Draco adorableness of Dooooom;
• Harry/Draco;
• Harry/Oliver;
• Harry/Marcus (WTF?);
• Draco/Oliver (ditto);
• Strange Love (Why now, for fuck's sake?);
• Assorted randomness.

No love,
You

Meh.

On the good side: got more feedback for Evitar, which is making me feel a lot better. It's nice to realise that I actually am improving as a writer.

Comments

[mydarkstar.livejournal.com]

Looking at the NaNoWriMo profiles, man, there are some serious cheaters over there. There's one woman with over 16,000 words done, which I can believe, but there's a guy who's already got 23,000 despite only joining yesterday, and there's another person claiming 51,000. I refuse to believe anyone actually managed to write that much in three days.

Vali's been complaining that all the people doing NaNoWriMo novels are all doing glorified slashy Block rip-offs with glittery gay cowboy hippie vampires and the like, but all the excerpts I've read on the site so far have read like "She's Come Undone" wannabes. Meh. I'd rather have glittery cowboys, personally.

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[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was looking at the forums and seeing all these people with word counts over 10,000 and going "Aaaaaa!!!" before I realised that there's no way they all have that much. I think Nat has about 6,000 words, and that's already quite a bit. I don't think anything over, say, 12,000 is all that realistic.

She's Come Undone? What's that?

Mine is lesbian hackers, elves, World War III, and government conspiracies. I can't seem to really figure out what the point is, other than that I fancy one of the main characters. Which, I suppose, is as good a reason as any to write a novel.

[mydarkstar.livejournal.com]

See, I am capable of believing that someone could write that fast, because I've seen Zed write novels in a week, but a) that was mostly when she was younger, and b) those were typically "Zed disappears from the Net for a week, then suddenly comes back with finished story." Whereas these people supposedly have both the time and the multitasking skills required to both write at an insane pace and post repeatedly about it. I don't think Zed even goes online when she's in Heavy-Duty Writing Mode, never mind talks to people about it. So I remain sceptical.

"She's Come Undone" - novel by some guy (Wally Lamb?) about...um...a fat girl whose father used to call her "Whale," or something, and her life, and how she goes into therapy after divorcing her husband and loses weight, or some crap. That whole "weird life/journey of self-discovery" shtick. I read the thing a few years ago and barely remember a word, to be honest, but it was very popular with the Oprah crowd.

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[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

*nodnod* Especially since the ones who seem to have time for both writing and posting, also seem to have time for a job, which seems highly unlikely to me. (Granted, I have two hours of commuting on top of that, but still.)

Ah, that sort of thing. I agree, then, bring on the gay glitter cowboys.

Also, randomly

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

LOL! Sleep is a good thing. Though... I think you're write, what are geographical borders when they're ALWAYS CHANGING???????? Lol...

Call me judgemental, but that's one novel I sure as hell won't be reading.

[pelicanzed.livejournal.com]

Yup; on two occasions I wrote 50000-word novels in the course of a week, but both times, it was the summer holidays, I had no commitments whatsoever, and I went online for a maximum of ten minutes each day - if at all. (Though how I managed that, I have no idea.) And talking about novels definitely slows them down - apart from taking up time, you get much fonder of talking about them than actually writing them.

I think I could write 50000 words of personal utter bumph in the space of twenty four hours, if I wanted to: I can type at over 2000 words an hour, and I'm good enough at rambling to keep going for that long. But fiction? No. The most I've ever done in a day, fiction-wise, was 10000 words, and that meant not going online until late evening.

[sivan.livejournal.com]

Strange Love (Why now, for fuck's sake?);

Yo, have you thought about writing that? You've got a plot and characters worked out for it, after all, and I find that really helps. (I changed my mind about which story to write on Nov 1, and I'm very glad I did.)

Coffee. Sounds good. *wander off to make some*

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[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

I have, actually, but my reasons not to write it for NaNo remain the same as they were last year: I love it too much to end up hating it because of the forced writing, not to mention the possibility of making it really bad because of the speed. :/

[natlet]

Don't feel bad, yo, this is what my brain is saying to me:

Me: Novel.
Brain: Trading Spaces porn!
Me: No! Novel!
Brain: Butbut they're groping each other!
Me: Oo - NO! Novel!
Brain: Poooooooooooorn.
Me: ....what novel? Heh.

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Oh, I know, man.

Me: Novel.
Brain: Baby!Draco! Ooh, Baby!Draco and teenaged!Harry?
Me: How would that even wor- No! Novel!
Brain: Aging potion accident. Awww, it'd be too cute. Or, you know, you do still owe Elfie that War!Drabble, and I know just how it goes ...
Me: *whimper*

[mumblemutter.livejournal.com]

Well, feel better. You could be like me. Signed up...weeks ago. As yet. Have no plot. Have no words. None. Have instead been dling Smallville episodes and going oooo...sparkly. And making SV icons. Yes. Is it the fourth already? Oh. Damn.

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[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Okay. Am feeling slightly better now. Thanks. :)

[kkscatnip.livejournal.com]

don't feel too bad, melle. i have about 1,500 words on mine. meh.

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[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Am currently at 981, and still far, far behind. Aaargh. *bangs head against desk* Why did I do this to myself?